Sir Jackie Stewart has tipped fellow Scot Paul di Resta to make his Formula
One debut in 2011.
24-year-old di Resta, the new DTM champion, was Force India's reserve and
Friday driver in 2010 and is being considered for a race seat with...

It will be some time before Team Lotus has its own wind tunnel up and
running, technical boss Mike Gascoyne has admitted.
Late in 2010, the Tony Fernandes-led outfit announced it would soon build a
tunnel at its Hingham headquarters.
But when asked...

Ferrari's 2011 chassis has passed a sequence of crucial crash tests,
according to Italian media reports.
The mandatory monocoque tests reportedly took place under FIA guidelines
and in the presence of an official observer at the CSI technical...

A Spanish website has admitted a news story about Santander buying into the
Spanish team HRT was a hoax.
The website said the bank had bought 40 per cent of the struggling team and
would announce the deal at the same time as confirming Pedro de la...

Red Bull's 2011 car will be a further evolution of the pace-setting cars
of the past two seasons.
This year, the championship-winning RB6 was an evolution of the similarly
Adrian Newey-penned 2009 car, which although beaten to the title by...

Team boss Christian Horner has backed reports that Red Bull's F1 cars
might one day be powered by their own brand of engine.
When Volkswagen was recently linked with an engine supply foray in the
future, the closely-aligned Red Bull was mooted as a...

Taking into account news items, blogs and forums, Fernando Alonso was the
hottest Spaniard in sport this year.
But the study by vipnet360 showed that when Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
are also factored in, the Ferrari driver ranks only...

HRT's 2011 car will not be present for the start of the official
pre-season test period in early February.
Owner Jose Ramon Carabante recently announced that the Hispania team will
be running at the first group session at Valencia on 1...

More than 70 per cent of those surveyed by the major German news agency SID
do not believe Michael Schumacher will win an eighth world title in 2011.
The most successful driver in F1 history had a difficult return to the
sport in 2010 after three...

Nico Rosberg is confident of a more successful season for Mercedes in 2011.
But the 25-year-old German, who this year finished 70 points ahead of his
famous teammate Michael Schumacher, is not so sure the team's progress
will be enough to close the...

Fernando Alonso insists he would have no fear if he was paired at Ferrari
with F1's new youngest world champion Sebastian Vettel.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said in recent days that the
23-year-old German will drive a red car "sooner or...

The next private test for 2011 F1 tyre supplier Pirelli will also be in
Bahrain.
With the 2009 Toyota and delayed for a day by a sandstorm, test drivers
Romain Grosjean and Pedro de la Rosa recently tested at the Sakhir track
over five...